Ludo WaltmanJan 18, 2025

Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the @upstream blog. Our piece introduces criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases https://doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19.

We express our deep concerns about the treatment of @eLife by the #WebOfScience and #Scopus databases. We see this as an example of databases hindering rather than supporting innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.

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Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem

Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databases that support and do not hinder innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.

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We urge stakeholders in the research system to work with innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. Examples of databases that are more supportive of innovation include #Dimensions, @OpenAlex and #EuropePMC, among others.
Jan 18, 2025 at 10:10amWeb
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I very much enjoyed working together on this piece with colleagues associated with several reform initiatives: @DORAssessment, @CoARAssessment, #HELIOSOpen, @cOAlitionS_OA, @ASAPbio, @BarcelonaDORI, and others. Hope there will be more of these collaborations in the future!